Window-shade bracket



Nov. 1923. 1,474,552

P. P. POULER WINDOW SHADE BRACKET Filed April 7. 192i EBIT-auer Patented Nov. 20, 1923.

UNITED STATES PAUL P. POULER, OF WATERVILLE. MAINE.

WINDOW-SHADE BRACKET.

Application filed April 7,

To all trimm t may concer/1t:

Be lit known that l, PAUL P. Pontina, a citizen of the United qtates, residingl at lVatei-ville, in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a lVindow- Shade Bracket; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will cnable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of the invention is to provide a smple, inexpensive and efficient means whereby shade rollers may be supported from a window frame or casing and may be adjusted to suit the length of the shade roller without mai-ring or causing the mutilation of the casing or the disfigurement of the surface finish or paint on the casingfA the construction of the brackets being such that having been attached to the casing it .may remain permanently notwithstanding the fact that the shade may be dismounted and remounted repeatedly7 and shade rollers of different lengths may bc substituted from time to time; and with these objects in View the invention consists in a construction and arrangement of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a view of a shade roller mount-- ed upon brackets embodying the invention seem-ed in the operative position to a win dow casing.

Figure 2 is a detail view in perspective of one of the roller brackets detached. v

Figure 3 is a similar view showing the rear side of the brackets.

Figure 4l is a transverse sectional view taken in the plane of the set screw.

The device consists essentially7 of a base or attaching plate 10 having laterally directed attaching ears l1, arranged at opposite ends thereof and offset rearwardly or toward the plane of the window casing which is indicated at 12 to space the body portion of the base plate from the plane of the surface of the window casing to the extent of the depth of the shoulders or offsets lo; and a slide 14 fitted upon and longitudinally movable with relation to the base plate between the plane of the body portion thereof and the surface of the win- 1921. Serial N0. 459,441.

dow casing, and carrying the roller bearing ear 1G having the usual bearing 17 adapted for the reception of the trunnion of a Hartshorn or other shade roller.

The end edges of the plate forming the body portion of the base, which including the attaching ears, may be struck from a single blank of metal, are rearwardly turned into positions perpendicular to the plane of the base to form lips 19 which are slotted as shown at 2O to receive the slide of the bearing` ears, and not only accurately guide the same, but hold it out of contact with the surface of the window casing. Also between the attaching` ears 1l the side edges of the plate forming the base are folded rearwardly to form bearing webs 2l between which and the body portion of the base the slide operates, and in which the slide is frictionally engaged by a set screw 22 which serves to lock the slide with the bearing ear in the desired adjustment.

It will be understood that to adapt the bearing ears of a pair of brackets such as fescribed to the length of the shade roller to be mounted therein it is only necessary to loosen the set screws and move the slide with relation to the previously mounted and secured base plate until the roller has been properly tted and mounted when the set screws may be tightened to lock the parts in the required position, and that when the shades are removed the bracket or bearing arms with their slides may be dismounted, leaving attached to the window casing only the base plate which projects but slightly and inconspicuously from the surface of the frame or casing and in such a way as not to interfere with the arrangement of other draperies which may be substituted temporarily.

Moreover it will be noted that the base plate or keeper which forms the only feature permanently attachable to the window frame or casing may be struck from a single blank of sheet metal and correspondingly the bearing ear with its slide may be formed similarly, so that the cost of manufacture of the device is minimized and in the event of removal from rented property of the occupant supplying brackets constructed in accordance with the invention, the base plate may be allowed to remain for the use of the subsequent occupant to avoid the mutilation of casings or trame Works as with the ordinary form of shade roller brackets.

Having thus described the invention, what l claim iszl. A, bracket made from a blank, said bracket having a plate at the front. thereof, end lips, extending` rearwardly from said plate, attaching ears extending rearwardly at the sides of the plate and havinlgl their attaching' surfaces in substantially the same plane as the yrear edges of said lips, said fars having spacing port-ions of substantially the same n'idtli as said lips,` said lips having` slots therethrough, a bearing member disposed slidal'ily in said slots and out of contact with said spacingportions and in advance ol the said plane, and retaining webs at the sides ol the plate overlapping said bearing member, in combination with fastening means on the plate operable to rictionally bind said bearing,` member against said Webs.

2. A bracket made from a blank, said bracket having a plate at the front thereof, end lips extending` rearwardly from said plate, attaeliing` ears extending rearwardly at the sides o1 the plate and havin their att-aching surfaces in substantially the same plane as the rear edges or' said lips, said ears having` spacing portions of substantially the same Width as said lips, said lips havingslots therethrough, a bearing member dis posed slidably in said slots in contact with said plate and out of contact with said spacingl portions, retaining Webs at the sides of the plate overlapping said bearing` member and having' their rear surfaces in advance el the said plane, and 'fastening means on. the plate operable to lrictionally bind said bearing member against said n'ebs.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence ot tn'o witnesses.

PAUL P. POULER.

llVitnesses Znnzann; Miinoou, JOSEPH RoULrN. 

